Jan 11, 2011 4:03 AM

This is my first question here. I want to install Zenoss on a Ubuntu machine, and the Zenoss-Stack option seems lovely. There's only one problem: If I follow the instructions, add the repository and try to install from it, aptitude complains that the package is untrusted and may compromise my system.

Usually, with such repository, there's a key one can download and "apt-key add" to prevent this message (and assure authenticity of the package). When I searched the web for one, it seems that there used to be one in the repository, but it's no longer there.

Indeed, such keys should not be kept in the repository; but does a key exist? If so, where is it? If not, is there a reason why not?

Hi. I'm bumping up this thread, I'm trying to write a Puppet module to install zenoss-stack via apt, but to make it clean I need a publicly available apt key of the repository. Google seems to be not very helpful so far...

Hey if you use these repository(see below) u will no have issues with key, the repo is on the installation guide.

5.2.1. Using apt (Command Line)1. Add the Zenoss repository to the /etc/apt/sources.list file. Add the following line at the bottom of the file:# Zenoss repository deb http://dev.zenoss.org/deb main stable2. Enter the following commands:apt-get updateapt-cache search zenoss-stackThis should return:zenoss-stack - Zenoss Stack with all requirements.3. Enter this command to install the Zenoss stack:apt-get install zenoss-stackZenoss is installed in the /usr/local/zenoss directory.4. Start Zenoss with this command:# /etc/init.d/zenoss-stack start

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PD: there is not more debian supported zenoss stack or there no will be more zenoss-stack at all?

Hi Juan, actually that's the repository I'm using. AFAIK, if you use non-Debian / non-Ubuntu apt repository, you have to add the repository key in order to avoid to type "Yes" once you install zenoss-stack (or to disable that check globally into apt configuration).

As far as I am aware, Debian is not a planned platform for the Core 4 release. I'd suspect with a enough community pushback it could be, but as of right now I believe it is planned to be RHEL5 variants only.

The ZCA is working with Zenoss to see if we can get a community effort on packaging for platforms other than Red Hat EL5 derivatives, but I don't currently know how successful we'll be. It's not easy to build. It's also going to be a bit of a new model, Community CORE builds - so I'm not sure how "official" they'll be.

I've never installed zenoss-core other than using the stack, and I don't see any "src" package on the sourceforge page... how hard is to get zenoss core running from SVN sources? Any document describing steps involved?